Good Morning All. Cloudy and 67° with a pause in the rain. Today begins day two of our marathon rain event. It only rained .15" overnight, a lot of distant rumbling thunder but I believe the real storms stayed north of the border in Oklahoma last night. Things let up for a long enough time yesterday for a successful grilling adventure with the pork chops. Today has scattered thunderstorms in the forecast with about a half inch of rain, tomorrow is expected to be a heavy day with nearly two inches. Total in the last 24 hours has been 1" exactly.
My jury duty for today has been cancelled, so I don't have to dig out my "jury clothes" of jeans and a collared golf shirt! The broccoli harvest continued yesterday during a break in the rain action, with a picking of about three pounds of "side shoots" which grow after the main head is picked. Most were about the size of a tennis ball, they will continue for as long as the weather remains cool.
Hey there Flo, I'll take a couple of sausage, egg and cheese biscuits this morning, skip the gravy this morning as I am still full of pork chop!
Thanks for all of the comments and reactions regarding the photo post yesterday;
Steve, Garry, Karl, Patrick, Ken, Gary, Sherrel, Phil, Hughie, Joe. All of your support means a lot to me. I do stand corrected though, the house is a Woodland Scenics kit, not a Walther's as posted. It's available as a "built-up" as well. I get my structures/manufacturers mixed up sometimes!
Out in the train shed yesterday, I made some significant progress with the Savings & Loan. I lightly went over all of the brick surfaces with a mortar solution, very lightly. I got all of the windows in the front and rear walls, side walls have none. Here's the front.
I started work on the fire escapes on the rear. I deviated from instructions by assembling them directly on the wall, instead of trying to line everything up individually, since they would later have to line up with holes that I had to drill through the wall. They were pre-marked for ease.
Then disaster struck. It seems that some solvent wicked under the weight pictured above and spoiled the wall a bit.
Since the rear wall is going to be the one facing the aisle, I need a good fix. I have a couple of things in mind that I hope will work. We'll see.
Chet - Really sorry to read that Ginger passed away. I know how much she meant to you over the years that I have known you.
Ken - First time that I have seen a diagram of your layout benchwork. It looks like you could and probably have made a great layout. Lets have more pictures, even of unfinished areas. Heck, I post them all of the time!
Patrick - No wonder you have no time for a layout!
Today is the new Tax Day for most. TX, OK, and LA still have another month to go due to the deep freeze in February. Get it together!
Everybody have a great day. Stay safe and dry.